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Beat the heat with Japanese summer recipes that make every meal feel like a breeze.

Enjoy refreshing cucumber sunomono as a side dish, slurp chilled somen and cold zaru soba noodles for dinner, and indulge in fruity summer desserts. Pair with iced matcha latte or ichigo milk for a cooling, seasonal feast.

Featured Recipe

Chicken and citrus somen noodle soup in a white bowl with slices of sudachi

Chilled Chicken and Citrus Somen Noodle Soup

Popular Japanese Summer Recipes

Homemade warabi mochi in a glass bowl coated with kinako and drizzled with kuromitsu syrup

Easy Warabi Mochi (with Homemade Kuromitsu Syrup)

Unagi don (Japanese Grilled Eel Rice Bowl) sprinkled with sansho Japanese pepper featured

Unagi Donburi (Japanese Grilled Eel Rice Bowl)

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Japanese Pickled Cucumber with Ginger (Kyuri no Tsukemono)

dipping cold udon noodles in mentsuyu (noodle dipping sauce) mixed with green onions

Zaru Udon (Cold Udon with Homemade Dipping Sauce)

Summer Recipes by Type

Nasu dengaku (Japanese miso-glazed eggplant) sprinkled with sesame seeds and shredded Perilla leaves on a dark textured rectangular plate

Nasu Dengaku (Grilled Eggplant with Miso Glaze)

Goya Champuru (Okinawan Bitter Melon Stir Fry) on a grey plate top down view

Goya Champuru (Okinawan Bitter Melon Stir Fry)

Stir fried edamame with garlic and oyster sauce glaze topped with dried chili and sesame seeds on a white plate

Stir-fried Edamame (with Garlic and Oyster Sauce Glaze)

Soba noodle salad made with summer vegetables and miso meat sauce in an off-white bowl topped with chopped green onions, bonito flakes and sliced tomato on a black surface

Summer Vegetable Soba Noodles with Rich Miso Meat Sauce

Hiyashi tantanmen in a white dish topped with boiled egg halves, julienned cucumber, chopped green onion, sliced tomato and seasoned ground pork on a bamboo mat background next to a glass of iced water and light wooden chopsticks

Hiyashi Tantanmen (Cold Spicy Ramen Noodles for Summer)

Zaru Soba (Japanese cold buckwheat noodles served on a bamboo tray)

Zaru Soba (Cold Buckwheat Noodles with Homemade Dipping Sauce)

lifting mixed bukkake udon with black chopsticks

Chilled BK Udon with Oroshi Daikon

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Authentic Hiyashi Chuka (Japanese Cold Ramen for Summer)

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A single slice of matcha rare cheesecake on a white plate next to half a strawberry, a blueberry, and a few mint leaves

Matcha Rare Cheesecake (no bake)

Anmitsu (Japanese kanten jelly dessert with red bean paste) topped with mikan orange, peach, kiwi, shiratama dangos, a cherry and whipped cream next to a small jug of homemade kuromitsu syrup

Anmitsu (Japanese Kanten Jelly Dessert with Red Bean Paste)

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Black Sesame Ice Cream (Kurogoma Aisu)

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Easy Japanese Coffee Jelly (with plant-based options)

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Japanese strawberry milk in a glass with a strawberry on the rim

Japanese Strawberry Milk (Ichigo Milk)

completed ume syrup in a jar next to a jar of ume and rock sugar in layers on a wooden board

Japanese Ume Plum Syrup

iced matcha latte with matcha whisk and small white bowl of matcha powder

Iced Matcha Latte (Iced Green Tea Latte)

iced hojicha latte with wagashi (Japanese sweets) and Japanese style teapot

Refreshing Iced Hojicha Latte (Roasted Green Tea Latte)

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Zaru Ramen with Tangy Dipping Sauce

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All Summer Recipes

Cold Shiso Pesto Pasta for Summer

Hiyashi Kitsune Soba (Cold Buckwheat Noodles with Marinated Fried Tofu)

Summer Vegetable Salad with Sesame-Shiso Dressing

Poached Chicken Tender Salad with Fruity Japanese Dressing

Best Salt Boiled Edamame Just Like Izakaya

Strawberry Mochi Milk (Nana’s Green Tea Copycat Recipe)

Crispy Salmon Skin Salad With A Japanese Twist

Wasabi-Ae Salad with Enoki Mushroom & Bok Choy

Ayu no Shioyaki (Salt-Grilled Sweetfish)

Abura Udon (Addictive Soupless Udon)

Mugen “Infinite” Piman (Addictive Green Bell Pepper with Canned Tuna)

Addictive Yamitsuki Lettuce Salad

Yamitsuki Shio Okra (Addictive Salted Okra)

Homemade Umeboshi (Japanese Pickled Plums)

Zaru Ramen (Cold Dipping Ramen)

Crispy Rice Salad with Salmon (Japanese Flavor Twist)

Eggplant Kabayaki (Plant-Based “Unagi” Bowl)

10 Minute Hiyashi Ramen (Cold Noodle Soup)

Hiyashi Tantanmen (Cold Spicy Ramen Noodles for Summer)

Homemade Shibazuke Pickles

Matcha Rare Cheesecake (no bake)

Anmitsu (Japanese Kanten Jelly Dessert with Red Bean Paste)

Ponzu Salad Dressing with Sesame & Wasabi

Unaju (Japanese Grilled Eel on Rice)

Beef Kushiyaki (Japanese Beef Skewers)

Japanese Strawberry Milk (Ichigo Milk)

Japanese Strawberry Sandwich (Ichigo Sando)

Hiyashi Tanuki Udon (Cold)

Nasu no Agebitashi (Deep Fried Eggplant in Dashi Broth)

Somen Salad with Japanese Sesame Dressing

Wakame Salad (Japanese Seaweed Salad) with Cucumber

Goya Champuru (Okinawan Bitter Melon Stir Fry)

Chilled Chicken and Citrus Somen Noodle Soup

Hitsumabushi (Nagoya Style Grilled Eel)

Easy Warabi Mochi (with Homemade Kuromitsu Syrup)

Unagi Donburi (Japanese Grilled Eel Rice Bowl)

Harusame Salad (Chuka Style Glass Noodle Salad)

Black Sesame Ice Cream (Kurogoma Aisu)

Shrimp Yaki Udon (Shio Lemon Shrimp Udon Stir Fry)

Ultimate Guide to Hiyayakko (Japanese Cold Tofu): Including 15 Toppings

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Thanks for visiting Sudachi Recipes. My name is Yuto and I’m a Japanese guy with a passion for food. Here I share tasty and accessible recipes so that you can bring a taste of Japan to your own kitchen.

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